📋 Tender Overview
Project Status: Active
Source of Funding / Amount: Loan 3972-ind: rajasthan secondary towns development sector project
Ordinary capital resources: US$ 300.00 million
The project will support the government of rajasthan (gor) in expanding access to improved water supply services for about 570,000 people and improved sanitation services for about 720,000 people in at least 14 secondary towns_by drawing on experiences and lessons from three earlier projects funded by the asian development bank (adb) in rajasthan. _the project will finance climate-resilient and inclusive water supply and sanitation (wss) infrastructure in rajasthans secondary towns, including heritage towns; empower local governments and strengthen their institutional capacity; and deepen sector reforms to ensure improved and sustainable service delivery in line with gors investment program.
Rajasthan is the largest state in india; it has 10% of the countrys land area, 5% of its population, and only about 1% of its surface water resources. About 17 million people (25% of rajasthans population) live in 193 urban centers. Rajasthan has done more to reduce poverty than any of indias other low-income states particularly between 2005 and 2012-the population below poverty line (bpl) declined from 38% in 1994, to 34% in 2005, and further to 15% in 2012. _cities are places of opportunity in rajasthan: the urban poverty rate averages 11%compared with 16% in rural areas. _rajasthans urban development policy (2017) emphasizes public service improvement in urban areas as a key contributing factor to strive for growth and poverty reduction. Important national and state government initiatives seek to stimulate industrial development and create jobs for migrants and local people, including numerous industrial parks throughout the state developed by gor. In addition, 39% of the delhi-mumbai industrial corridor is situated in rajasthan. Tourism is also a major economic driver, with 50 million tourists (including 1. 8 million foreign tourists) in 2018, double the figure in 2010. _ however, the states economic development is constrained by water availability, and gor has several plans to increase water supply for industrial and domestic consumption.
(i)access to potable, affordable, reliable, equitable, and environmentally sustainable drinking water supply in all urban areas of rajasthan improved (rajasthan urban water supply policy)(ii)health status of urban population, especially the poor and underprivileged, improved (state sewerage and waste water policy)
Quality, reliability, equity, and sustainability of wss services in project towns of rajasthan improved
As the project is making steady progress on works, it is expected to meet the outcome in a timely manner.
Water supply system in at least eight project towns improvedsanitation systems in at least 26 project towns developed or improvedinstitutional and human capacities strengthened for sustainable service delivery, gender e
